#sternpost

12/29/25.

Concentric Circles (Portland, Oregon) is releasing the new Sternpost (Malmö, Sweden) LP in January 2026. We first posted about the band in 2024 after learning about them through a Monorail email. Monorail heaped praise upon the LP "Ulrika" and mentioned The Pastels, Euros Childs, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, The Zombies and Robert Wyatt in their write-up. I added The High Llamas.

"unworld.afterpop" only has three songs currently available for streaming. The High Llamas immediately come to mind again as does Van Dyke Parks, Chris Weisman, Peel Dream Magazine, and Prefab Sprout.

4/22/25.

I can't really imagine how Sukpatch "Lite Hits" was welcomed in the early 1990s. Really, this sounds like an LP that arrived about 30 years too early. Today, this would fit nicely next to releases from either Mo Troper (listen to those vocals) or Cindy Lee. Some of the beats make me think of The Go! Team.

7/31/25.

Concentric Circles (Portland, Oregon) has reissued some great hidden treasures. And I mean hidden. We've posted about two hidden reissues - Moonlove and Sukpatch - and one less hidden one, Sternpost (less hidden because they are more contemporary).

6/29/24.

I know I've admitted to this before, but I use Monorail Music's frequent emails as a tool for hearing new music. A couple of days ago, the email touted a reissue of Sternpost "Ulrika".

Sternpost is the solo project of Petter Herbertsson (Malmö, Sweden) - a librarian and baroque musician. Here is an excerpt from the Monorail email:

"Ulrika is utterly breathtaking work, some deep Robert Wyatt collabing with Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci slanted and decanted arrangements, some oblique songwriting that sounds like Zombies’ Odyssey & Oracle by way of BBC Radiophonic Workshop and plenty of playing that sounds like that sweetspot in say, 1970, before prog rock and after psyche. This is music you HAVE to hear...it almost makes us think of The Pastels circa NOW baby...Ulrika...presses those Euros Childs buttons along with the bleeps and bloops on whatever vintage synth they’re using."

Wow. I listened and everything said is true. I would add this reminds me of The High Llamas. This is wonderfully interesting and catchy in places, but it is also experimental. So when thinking of all the above sounds, think of the experimental side.